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Post by maddogfagin on Dec 31, 2016 15:48:05 GMT
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Post by maddogfagin on Jan 8, 2017 9:11:43 GMT
A couple of snaps from the Mandoki picture album with a certain flute player and the late and much missed Jack Bruce
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Post by JTull 007 on May 29, 2019 1:08:29 GMT
Ian Anderson on flute Mandoki feat. United Artists for Europe – Mother Europe 2019 LINK
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Post by JTull 007 on Sept 9, 2019 1:57:26 GMT
Mandoki Soulmates - Living in the Gap We are living in the gap! In times of echo chambers and filter bubbles we must constantly reflect on our own behaviour and consider how we want to treat our loved ones. How can we get back in touch with humanity? We need a revenge of analog!
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Post by JTull 007 on Apr 16, 2020 0:55:28 GMT
#SoulmatesMonday : Ian Anderson's FLUTE SOLO
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Post by JTull 007 on Apr 16, 2020 2:04:57 GMT
Ian Anderson with Soulmates "Room number 8" Video by Carl Abb
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Post by maddogfagin on Jun 24, 2020 6:21:05 GMT
www.talkers.com/2020/06/23/tuesday-june-23-2020/International Rock Musician/Impresario Leslie Mandoki Is This Week’s Guest on Harrison Podcast. Munich, Germany-based, Hungarian rocker Leslie Mandoki is this week’s guest on the award-winning PodcastOne series, “The Michael Harrison Interview.” Mandoki is a seasoned professional forged by experience, passion and life, who is keeping the spirit and quality of the progressive, jazz rock era alive and well for generations old and new. His ensemble, MANDOKI SOULMATES, is a long-running loosely knit association of some of the greatest big-name musicians on the planet. Their brand-new release, “Living in the Gap & Hungarian Pictures,” is a double album that expresses their ideals of socially aware lyrics and complex musical arrangements – basic tenets of the progressive and jazz rock era. In his youth, Mandoki escaped from communist Hungary to West Germany where he built one of the finest studio complexes in Europe, produced and performed on records, became friends with a wide network of great musicians including the legendary Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull and launched a progressive rock juggernaut. Countless gold and platinum records decorate his walls. He also wrote, produced, and performed the superb charity song dedicated to the heroes of the coronavirus titled #WeSayThankYou with Ian Anderson that has garnered positive attention on international radio and on YouTube. Harrison and Mandoki discuss the music, social issues and politics that make Leslie Mandoki a fascinating individual – largely unknown to Americans. link
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Post by maddogfagin on Oct 16, 2020 9:58:28 GMT
americansongwriter.com/Mandoki Soulmates Make Music With a Progressive Posture and Idealistic IntentsLee Zimmerman, October 14, 2020 Mandoki Soulmates | Living in the Gap/Hungarian Pictures | (Sony Music/Red Rock Production) 3.5 out of 5 It may be premature to suggest that prog rock is on its deathbed, but it’s certainly somewhat incapacitated to say the very least. With the future of standard bearers like the Moody Blues and Jethro Tull seemingly uncertain and other outfits such as Yes and King Crimson working with only remnants of their seminal line-ups, there are few bands left at the helm and able to move the music forward. If that is the case, apparently no one’s told Leslie Mandoki. A producer, musician, bandleader, and songwriter, he helms a supergroup of sorts called, naturally enough, Mandoki Soulmates. Its members include a variety of players that have been a part of anumber of renowned ensembles — lead singers Toto, Supertramp, Cutting Crew, Manfred Mann, and the Miles Davis Band and more. For the band’s latest opus, Living in the Gap/Hungarian Pictures, Mandokimanaged to gather an impressive array of additional guests as well, each with a renowned pedigree. The roll call of artists includes a number of major names — Ian Anderson (of Jethro Tull), the late Cream bassist Jack Bruce, Bobby Kimball of Toto, Chris Thompson of Manfred Mann’s Earth Band, superstar session drummer Simon Phillips, John Helliwell of Supertramp, and Grammy Award-winning trumpet player, Randy Brecker, among them. “This incredible list of legends and icons is like a family to me,” Mandoki maintains.”Many of us have known each other for more than two decades. It really was kind of easy to gather such an enormous band of bandleaders because we all share one thing in life –- music. We all live to create and play music together. When the time comes and the idea and the songs are right, we all gather to mutually create a musical masterpiece and that’s exactly, which is what we did again for this album. More here
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Post by maddogfagin on Mar 26, 2021 7:38:47 GMT
MANDOKI SOULMATES SIGN TO INSIDEOUTMUSIC, ANNOUNCE GLOBAL STREAMING CONCERT EVENT WITH SPECIAL GUESTS INCLUDING JETHRO TULL LEGEND IAN ANDERSONMarch 25, 2021, 8 hours ago news mandoki soulmates ian anderson jethro tull MANDOKI SOULMATES Sign To InsideOutMusic, Announce Global Streaming Concert Event With Special Guests Including JETHRO TULL Legend IAN ANDERSON InsideOutMusic announces the signing of Mandoki Soulmates, featuring renowned musician, songwriter and producer Leslie Mándoki. InsideOut will release the band’s latest album Hungarian Pictures later this year as a brand new visual album edition that includes a blu-ray with the Visual Album and additional material, as well as additional music, remixed and remastered. In addition to this, Mandoki Soulmates have put together a global online concert performance of this prog-rock suite, featuring an illustrious line-up of musicians that includes Leslie Mandoki alongside Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull), Nick van Eede (Cutting Crew), Till Brönner, Szakcsi, Jane Xie, John Helliwell (Supertramp), Steve Bailey, Al Di Meola, Peter Maffay, Jesse Siebenberg (Supertramp), Cory Henry, Deobrat Mishra, Mike Stern, Margarita, Randy Brecker, Bill Evans, Sirreal, Richard Bona, Moto Fukushima, Tony Carey and Julia Mandoki. The performance will debut on Friday 26th March at 7pm CET. Watch a trailer for this special performance below. As Leslie explains: “The pandemic has made concerts as we know and love them impossible for the time being. Nevertheless, we cannot rest—we must be louder than ever before! The global challenges that humanity is facing—pandemics, financial and economic crises, migration and integration, climate change—will only be met if we overcome divisions across all borders. That is why the Mandoki Soulmates, together with musicians from all parts of the world, are raising their voices for unity and against division across all borders: physical, cultural, and intellectual with this online concert. From our studio at Lake Starnberg, near Munich, we play with Tony Carey and the rest of the Soulmates band who are local. Our Soulmates in Los Angeles, New York, Boston, Miami, Nashville, London, Berlin, Tokyo, Shanghai, Beijing, Delhi, and Moscow are con-nected to our digital stage. We all play live, whether it is in a living room on 52nd Street in New York, on the beach in South Carolina, or in a private basement studio of a castle in Northern England. Talk about unification!—this is the technology enabling the spiritual, to bridge the gap around the world.” Background on Hungarian Pictures: Hungarian Pictures is constructed as a suite, based on compositions and themes by Bartók, supplemented with the bands original songs. Together with Greg Lake of Emerson Lake & Palmer, and Jon Lord of Deep Purple, Leslie had worked on the seed of this idea years ago. Leslie explains: “For Bartók, diversity in culture creates enrichment. He believed that it is precisely from these differences that art draws the strength that enables further development. He mixed sounds and traditional melodies from different regions of the Carpathian Plain in order to set an example against the burgeoning threat of National Socialism (Nazism) through the unifying aspects of music. That unifying impulse inspired Jon Lord, Greg Lake, and me. After completing our Mandoki Soulmates “Wings Of Freedom” tour through Europe, we received an invitation from the Grammy Organization to give a concert in New York's Beacon Theater (where Martin Scorsese shot the Rolling Stones concert film Shine a Light). The Soulmates show was a great success with an enthusiastic New York audi-ence, standing ovations, and positive press reviews. For me, a former asylum seeker who over four decades ago fled from a communist dictatorship to freedom, this success in the “Land of the Free” is a very special moment. After the concert, I spent a few days with my children in Van Morrison's former house in Topanga Canyon, one of the old “hippie” neighborhoods of Los Angeles. I used this free time to reflect on social developments over the past few years. It became clear to me that we as artists are being challenged to become louder, to be a thorn in the side of so-ciety, and to bring progressive jazz rock back to real socio-political relevance. This is how the first ideas for a new album came about. It is the most ambitious and best project we ever worked on. I am very grateful to our audience for the extraordinary chart success of our double al-bum Living In The Gap + Hungarian Pictures and the enthusiasm resulting in sold-out concerts. A supporting concert series for 2020 was signed, sealed, and all but delivered when the pandemic arrived. This quarantine of musical expression has been a true test of character, but artistic souls cannot be locked in forever: the urge for freedom, respon-sibility and creativity are too great." Look out for more information on the release of the Hungarian Pictures visual album in the coming months. link
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Post by maddogfagin on Mar 28, 2021 11:48:44 GMT
#MandokiSoulmates #onlineconcert #premiere
Mandoki Soulmates - Hungarian Pictures MUSIC IS THE GREATEST UNIFIER! 7,030 views•Premiered Mar 26, 2021
Ian Anderson at 23:19Leslie Mandoki | Starnberger See Ian Anderson | Jethro Tull – Oxford Nick van Eede | Cutting Crew – London Till Brönner | Berlin Szakcsi | Budapest Jane Xie | Shanghai John Helliwell | Supertramp – Liverpool Steve Bailey | Boston Al Di Meola | New York Peter Maffay | Starnberger See Jesse Siebenberg | Supertramp – San Francisco Cory Henry | Los Angeles Deobrat Mishra | Delhi Mike Stern | New York Margarita | Moskau Randy Brecker | Long Island / New York Bill Evans | Nashville Sirreal | Beijing Richard Bona | Miami Moto Fukushima | Tokyo Tony Carey | Los Angeles / Starnberger See Julia Mandoki | Amsterdam
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Post by JTull 007 on Apr 27, 2021 1:07:25 GMT
Ian Anderson at Lake Starnberger with The Mandoki Soulmates
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Post by maddogfagin on Aug 6, 2021 5:50:09 GMT
Mandoki Soulmates Utopia For Realists: Hungarian Pictures (various formats pre-order) Featuring an impressive ‘cast of thousands’, Utopia For Realists includes a Prog Rock suite studio album, along with Hungarian Pictures, which combines the recording of a concert film along with an impressive cinematic realisation of the individual musical episodes. The legend that is Leslie Mandoki plays together with Ian Anderson, John Helliwell, Al Di Meola, Jesse Siebenberg, Mike Stern, Randy Brecker, Bill Evans, Tony Carey and more. CD/Blu-ray in mediabook with 52-page booklet. Pre-order for 24th September release. Also available as Utopia For Realists audio only CD and double vinyl (with CD) editions. link
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Post by maddogfagin on Jan 11, 2022 7:52:55 GMT
bravewords.com/news/mandoki-soulmates-to-host-free-livestream-event-on-january-15MANDOKI SOULMATES TO HOST FREE LIVESTREAM EVENT ON JANUARY 15January 10, 2022, 8 hours ago Mandoki Soulmates is hosting a livestream on YouTube, on January 15. Hang with the band for their global Zoom meet-up, then watch the premiere of a magnificent new concert film for free. Says the band: "To thank our dedicated followers in the prog-rock and jazz-rock communities for their support in these days of cancelled concerts and shuttered venues, we Mandoki Soulmates are reaching out with a live global streaming event on January 15, 2022 (3 PM, NYC time; 21:00, Berlin time). Our music-loving supporters have continued to inspire our creativity through these uncertain times for musicians and for the world, and we want to express our gratitude by hosting this event with band members in a live Zoom hang-out, followed by streaming a never-before-seen sumptuous concert film from our electrifying open-air Budapest performance in August 2021. "Join us for the Zoom meet-up and video premiere on YouTube: "During the band meet-up, we’ll update everyone on what we’ve been doing musically and personally in these trying times, and preview exciting new and upcoming releases from band members, such as the new Jethro Tull album from Ian Anderson. In the first days of real pandemic lockdown in 2020, Ian, Leslie, and members of the Soulmates created a song for charity celebrating front-line workers, 'We Say, Thank You'." "In the upcoming streaming event, the two-and-a-half hour concert video premiere includes the brilliant prog-rock suite 'Hungarian Pictures', and while the concert was attended by 30,000 people, this high-end concert film brings you into the music and performances in ways that are only possible in this audio-visual medium. You won’t want to miss it - it’s free and not available anywhere else - our way of saying a special thank you to our amazing audience." The Mandoki Soulmates, once described by the late Soulmate Greg Lake (Emerson, Lake & Palmer) as “one of the best bands in the world,” are the “Super-Group” musicians surrounding singer, drummer, and songwriter Leslie Mandoki, who has worked as a producer for Disney masterpieces and with greats like Lionel Ritchie, Phil Collins, and Chaka Khan, among many others. In addition to Leslie, the Mandoki Soulmates include: Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull), John Helliwell (Supertramp), Chris Thompson (Manfred Mann’s EB), Bobby Kimball (Toto), Nick van Eede (Cutting Crew), Al Di Meola, Jesse Siebenberg (Supertramp), Cory Henry, Mike Stern, Randy Brecker, Bill Evans, Tony Carey, Richard Bona, Julia Mandoki, Peter Maffay, Till Brönner, David Clayton Thomas (Blood Sweat & Tears), and Klaus Doldinger. Playing together in the Mandoki Soulmates band, these luminaries have been writing and producing new original music for 30 years. Founding band members include Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull, Jack Bruce of Cream, and Al Di Meola; collectively they have earned 35 Grammys and sold over 350 million records. The band’s latest album, Utopia For Realists, defines itself as sophisticated and mature new music that combines the intellectual and artistic essence of British prog rock with the virtuosic brilliance of New York's jazz-rock and fusion scene. Listen to the new visual album here. During the Covid-related lockdown in March 2021, the Mandoki Soulmates decided it was time to give back to their audience and joined together for their first, highly successful online concert from around the world to celebrate music as the greatest unifier against division. The result, titled “Music Is The Greatest Unifier!” premiered on YouTube on March 26, 2021 and has since been seen by more than five million people through broadcasts on ARD, Germany's largest television network, and various other third party broadcasters including BR, WDR, hr, and SWR.
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